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Inside the rise of the ‘invisible power’: the modern chief of staff
NEW YORK (Realist English). For Christina Dupré, a senior executive at the real estate technology startup Tailorbird, being a chief...
Read moreCIA chief Ratcliffe visits Brussels to reassure EU of U.S. reliability amid tensions over Trump’s foreign policy
BRUSSELS (Realist English). CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a discreet visit to Brussels this week, holding meetings with top European...
Read moreVolodin calls foreign agents “traitors” and urges tougher laws to protect Russia’s sovereignty
MOSCOW (Realist English). Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin on Tuesday described so-called foreign agents as “people who have...
Read moreU.S. envoy calls Lebanon a “failed state” with a “dinosaur government,” urges normalization with Israel
MANAMA (Realist English). U.S. Ambassador Thomas Barrack described Lebanon as a “failed state” governed by “dinosaurs,” casting doubt on the...
Read moreNigeria says it will accept U.S. help against militants if sovereignty is respected
ABUJA (Realist English). Nigeria said it would welcome assistance from the United States in combating armed groups — but only...
Read moreEurozone inflation slows to 2.1% in October, nearing ECB target as Lagarde urges caution
FRANKFURT (Realist English). Inflation across the eurozone slowed further in October, edging closer to the European Central Bank’s 2% target,...
Read moreTrump threatens military action against Nigeria over alleged anti-Christian violence
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to launch military attacks against Nigeria, citing alleged anti-Christian violence and...
Read moreKamala Harris says persistence, not taking ‘no’ for an answer, shaped her career
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says that refusing to take “no” for an answer has been...
Read moreExxonMobil beats forecasts for sixth straight quarter, fueled by Guyana expansion
HOUSTON (Realist English). ExxonMobil Corp. has once again surpassed Wall Street expectations, posting stronger-than-expected third-quarter results on the back of...
Read moreTurkey fortifies nearly half its land borders with walls under nationwide security plan
ANKARA (Realist English). Nearly half of Turkey’s land borders are now protected by security walls as part of an extensive...
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“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
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